Popular Will against Democracy: Populist Autocratization in Turkey

Sözen, Yunus

doi:10.47613/reflektif.2020.3

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“…The Manichean populist discourses are created by the distinction between educated‐secular‐modernist‐center and native‐traditional‐periphery (see Mardin, 1973) that has become a long‐lived fertile ground for the “right‐wing populism a la Turca” (Aytaç et al., 2021; Aytaç & Elçi, 2019; Erdoğan & Uyan‐Semerci, 2020a; Elçi, 2019). Populist right‐wing political actors in Turkey such as Adnan Menderes, Süleyman Demirel, Turgut Özal, and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan built their discourses on the dichotomy of secularist state that does not represent “real national values” versus religious and nationalist ordinary people (Çınar & Sayın, 2014; Sözen, 2020). For the past two decades, government party's and Erdoğan's nationalist‐populist rhetoric exceedingly hinge upon the construction of this Manichean duality between nonnative secular citizens and conservative Sunni Muslim Turkish citizens.…”

Section: Context‐dependent National Identity Populist Heritage and In...mentioning

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Populist attitudes moderates the negative relationship between national identity and support for pro‐refugee policies

Uysal

2022

Anal Soc Iss & Public Policy

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Although scholars argue the role of interaction of national identification and populist mindset on attitudes toward refugees, the role of this interaction remained unanswered in social psychological studies. Across two cross‐sectional survey studies conducted in Turkey (n1 = 190, n2 = 306), I hypothesized that national identity would be negatively associated with supporting pro‐refugee policies and populist attitudes would moderate this relationship. Results implied that populist attitudes moderated the relationship between national identity and support for pro‐refugee policies, while higher national identity predicted lower support for pro‐refugee policies in Turkey. The negative effect of national identity on support for pro‐refugee policies was at its highest level when combined with higher populist attitudes. This finding contributes to the populism literature that implicates populism becomes more concrete when combined with other thick‐centered ideologies such as nationalism. Findings’ theoretical and practical implications for social psychology and political science literature as well as the interrelatedness of these implications with the contextual and historical peculiarity of Turkish politics are discussed.

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Section: Context‐dependent National Identity Populist Heritage and In...mentioning

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Populist attitudes moderates the negative relationship between national identity and support for pro‐refugee policies

Uysal

2022

Anal Soc Iss & Public Policy

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“…We believe that the history of the relationships between Turkey and Europe has brought mistrust to the West to some degree, especially among the nationalists. Moreover, Turkey is usually contextualized with a master duality: traditional-religious-provincial versus modernist-secularist-urban (see Mardin, 1973; Sözen, 2020). Turkey’s modern, secular and urban citizens (who are accused of being non-native by far-right populists) have tried to convince the world that they’re European (Western), not Asian or Eastern (Navaro, 2002).…”

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“…Pensamos que la historia de las relaciones entre Turquía y Europa, ha generado un cierto grado de desconfianza en Occidente, especialmente entre los nacionalistas. Además, Turquía es generalmente contextualizada con una dualidad principal: tradicional-religiosa-provincial frente a modernista-laica-urbana (ver Mardin, 1973; Sözen, 2020). Los ciudadanos turcos modernos, laicos, y urbanos (que fueron acusados de no ser nativos por populistas de la extrema derecha sts) han intentado convencer al mundo de que son europeos (occidentales), y no asiáticos ni orientales (Navaro, 2002).…”

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The roles of national and global identities and leaders in the acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines developed by different countries (Los roles de las identidades y los líderes nacionales y globales en la aceptación de las vacunas contra la COVID-19 desarrolladas por diferentes países)

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Üzümçeker

Uysal

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International Journal of Social Psychology: Revista de Psicolog

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“…With increasing authoritarianism under the AKP government following the failed peace process in 2015 and the alleged "coup attempt" in 2016 (Sözen 2020;Erensü and Alemdaroğlu 2018;Tansel 2018), media in Turkey has suffered intensifying political pressure, financial sanctions, bans of media outlets, as well as imprisonment of media employees (Yıldırım et al 2020). In these circumstances, social media have become an important tool for receiving and disseminating information.…”

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Fighting Insurgency, Ruining the Environment: the Case of Forest Fires in the Dersim Province of Turkey

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Environmental destruction has long been used as a military strategy in times of conflict. A long-term example of environmental destruction in a conflict zone can be found in Dersim/Tunceli province, located in Eastern Turkey. In the last century, at least two military operations negatively impacted Dersim’s population and environment: 1937–38 and 1993–94. Both conflict and environmental destruction in the region continued after the 1990s. Particularly after July 2015, when the brief peace process that began in 2013 ended, conflict between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) resumed and questions arose about the cause of forest fires in Dersim. In this research we investigate whether there is a relationship between conflict and forest fires in Dersim. This is denied by the Turkish state but asserted by many Dersim residents, civil society groups, and political parties. We use a multi-disciplinary approach, combining methods of qualitative analysis of print media (newspapers), social media (Twitter), and local accounts, together with quantitative methods: remote sensing and spatial analysis. Interdisciplinary analysis combining quantitative datasets with in-depth, qualitative data allows a better understanding of the role of conflict in potentially exacerbating the frequency and severity of forest fires. Although we cannot determine the cause of the fires, the results of our statistical analysis suggest a significant relationship between fires and conflict in Dersim, indicating that the incidence of conflicts is generally correlated with the number of fires.

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Popular Will against Democracy: Populist Autocratization in Turkey

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Populist attitudes moderates the negative relationship between national identity and support for pro‐refugee policies

Populist attitudes moderates the negative relationship between national identity and support for pro‐refugee policies

The roles of national and global identities and leaders in the acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines developed by different countries (Los roles de las identidades y los líderes nacionales y globales en la aceptación de las vacunas contra la COVID-19 desarrolladas por diferentes países)

Fighting Insurgency, Ruining the Environment: the Case of Forest Fires in the Dersim Province of Turkey

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